How to use sunlight as the main source of energy and light? How to use daylight to ensure health and well-being for people working and living in buildings? How to transform the existing building stock with strategies for daylighting and natural ventilation? The VELUX Group challenges students of architecture from all over the world to explore and investigate daylight in architecture under the overall award theme Light of Tomorrow.
The International VELUX Award invites you to reflect on the role of daylight as a focal point. The award encourages an open-minded approach to the theme of Light of Tomorrow and seeks to stimulate creativity, curiosity and experimental thinking. We welcome your participation and look forward to your contribution to the continuous discussion on the role of daylight in architecture. Register on: iva.velux.com and follow us on: facebook.com/internationalveluxaward
We encourage you to focus on the importance of sunlight and daylight to a sustainable development that is taking human needs and the rhythms and balances of nature into account.
Registration opens
Registration closes; submission period opens
Submission deadline; project upload
Winners announcement and online exhibition
November 2015
1 April 2016
15 June 2016
October 2016
Deadline for questions
Jury meeting – evaluation of all submitted projects